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Department of English
M. PHIL. ENGLISH ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, FEBRU"ARY 2014
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Max. Time: 2 hours Max. Marks: 75
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Section A
[TOTAL MARKS: 50]
There are 50 questions to answer.
Each question carries ONE MARK.

0.33 of a mark will be deducted for every WRONG answer.



1. "How far is the school from the railway station?" "Quite far, I guess."
From the answer, we understand that The person who responds has sure knowledge of the distance. The person who responds has no knowledge of the distance. The person who responds has some knowledge of the distance. The person who responds has not quite heard the question.


2. In the old saying, 'Honesty is the best policy', 'policy' means: Insurance' Bet Principle Contract


3. Rabibabu has been living in Balasore for nearly twenty years now. What this means is that Rabibabu has left Balasore for good. Rabibabu's leaving Balasore was not good. Rabibabu is still living in Balasore. Rabibabu will live in Balasore for ever.


4. When you say is beyond a shadow of doubt' it means... You do not have a shadow. You doubt your own shadow. It is certain and cannot be doubted. You doubt your shadow is not your own.



5. Identify the sentence that uses articles correctly: Office of the Collector is located at a distance of 2 kilometers. The Office of Collector is located at the distance of 2 kilometers. The Office of the Collector is located at a distance of 2 kilometers. An Office of the Collector is located at the distance of 2 kilometers.


6. 'May I use your telephone?' is more want to use your telephone'.
Suggestive Authoritarian Polite Discourteous


7. For your information, I would inform you that it will be necessary to submit the status report to this office by 31 May 2013.
Correct the sentence by picking the right suggestion below: Begin the sentence with "by 31 May 2013" No change required Omit the phrase "I would inform you that" Omit the phrase "For your information"


8. By Persona is meant: A character who speaks in a poem The voice of the poet in a poem Both Neither


9. In theatre, a prop is Any physical object used by actors on stage during the production ofa play Any physical object used by non-actors on stage during the production of a play Any physical object of costume and set used by actors on stage during the production of a play Any physical object other than costume and set used by actors on stage during the production of a play


10. "The principle which controls it is simply that it should give us pleasure, the desire which impels us when we take it from the shelf is simply to receive pleasure. Everything in an essay must be subdued to that end." What is 'that Principle Pleasure Desire The essay



11. When the title of a poem begins with the phrase, In Memory of.. we expect it to be An epic An elegy An encomium An essay


12. By tone is meant the feature of a piece of writing or speech that shows the writer's/speaker's attitude towards The audience The theme of the text concerned The persons or speakers in the text concerned All of the above


13. I chatter over stony ways
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.

The bubbly and stream-like sounds here suggest that the speaker is a Book Blonde Brook Beast


14. Which of the following is NOT a correct description of diction? One's interpretation of words One's use of words One's choice of language One's style of enunciation


15. If one observes that William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was written to condemn Fascism, the observation will be considered Allegorical Anachronistic Absurd Anagogical


16. Hayden White is known for having written about: The narrative foundations of history The historical foundations of narrative His famous father, E.B. White World War II



17. Which Indian author famously withdrew his/her book from the Commonwealth Fiction Prize nomination list? Salman Rushdie Anita Desai Kiran Desai Amitav Ghosh


18. The early Indian theorist who wrote about poetics was ... Bharata Bhima Anantamurthy Kshemendra


19. What fonn ofthe novel is common to the following authors?
James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett Realist Surrealist Stream of conscience Stream of consciousness


20. Fiction set in the mafia world of cities such as Los Angeles or Mumbai is usually Noir Dark Noir Nouveau Nordic


21. Which tenn best describes the orphan picaresque hero ofthe 18th century English novel? Foundling Changeling Inkling Trifling


22. Which term is most commonly used to describe the graphic novel medium? Verbal picture Graphix Imagetext Iconix


23. What is common to Don Quixote, Pilgrim's Progress, Le Morte d'Arthur and The Pisan Cantos? They were all written in prison They were all originally in Latin They are all about Knights They are all inspired by Dante


24. The African American Renaissance is popularly believed to have started in a particular section of New York city. This section is New Jersey Brooklyn Harlem Manhattan


25. Which one of the following critics/theorists did substantial work on folk tales? Roland Barthes John Barth Vladimir Propp Mikhail Bakhtin


26. The process by which ideology addresses an individual which, in Louis Althusser's view, is a central feature of discourses, is called ... Identity Identification Isolation Interpellation


27. Shared abstract concepts and myths that enable us to identify with grpups such as the nation or community are called The Symbolic Fantasy Imaginary Dream


28. The description that best captures the writing of the following authors would be...
Rohinton Mistry, Kamala Markandaya, Arvind Adiga Metafiction Surrealist fiction Historical Romance Social Realist fiction


29. 'You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man'. This famous statement by Frederick Douglass, is probably the first known use of a particular figure of speech by a black man. Identify the figure of speech. Prolepsis Chiasmus Analogy Litote


30. 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos Williams is best described as alan ... poem Surreal Imagist Iconic Vorticist


31. Complete the sequence of terms:
Prolepsis, analepsis... Sepsis Catachresis Metalepsis Catalepsis


32. What are the "Ides of March" in Julius Caesar? .. 1 March 10 March 15 March 31 March


33. A sanguine outlook is associated with the Rationalist Socialist Philanthropist Optimist


34. Don Quixote was written in Italian French Spanish German

35. We read an ongoing debate on the relative merits of French and English theatre in Apologie for Poetrie (Philip Sidney) The Roman Actor (Philip Massinger) An Essay on Dramatic Poesy (John Dryden) An Essay on Criticism (Alexander Pope)

36. According to T. S. Eliot, one of the following plays suffers from its hero being "dominated by an emotion which is inexpressible, because it is in excess of the facts as they appear." The Frogs Hamlet Volpone All for Love


37. The standard abbreviations Gen., Exod., Lev., Num., Deut. refer to the Pentateuch Historical Books Wisdom Books Apocrypha


38. The word Circa, Latin for "about," is used in scholarly material along with Books and pagination Facts and figures Dates and quantities Foot-and end-note citations


39. "The Uncanny" of Sigmund Freud presents a substantial reading of 'Hansel and Gretel' 'The Sandman' Uncle Tom's Cabin Oedipus Rex


40. Fin de siecle means Seize the day! The end of the world The end of the century Finishing touches



41. A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July ­
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,

The above verse is an example of an Acronym Alexandrine Acrostic Allegory


42. The authors whom F.R. Leavis identifies as constituting the 'Great Tradition' of the English novel are: Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne and Smollett Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Lawrence Sterne Charles Dickens, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot


43. The doors of suburban houses open after dinner and men and women steal or spring forth according to temperament. What does imply in this context? Come out very quietly Come out after having stolen something Come out guiltily None of the above


44. woman came out ofthe dwelling and began calling the man names.' What was the woman doing? Calling the man Addressing the man Abusing the man Calling for the man


45. have only this horse to flog and make a profit,' he said. In this context, flog' means To whip To advertise To sell. To buy






46. J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman, Harold Bloom. Who was the fourth member of the group called 'The Yale Critics'? Jacques Derrida Paul de Man Wlad Godzich Robert Young


47. Negative capability is a critical concept introduced by PB Shelley Ferdinand de Saussure John Keats Jacques Derrida


48. The ur-Hamlet is popularly taken to have been authored by..... William Shakespeare Thomas Kyd Francis Bacon Thomas Nashe


49. The word 'garage' has the following origin Italian Spanish French German


50. Gayatri Spivak's On the Death ofa Discipline speaks about the discipline of Comparative Literature English South Asian Literature Cultural Studies










Section B
Attempt either or
I. Write an essay: on anyone of the topics given below.


1. Write an essay: Cultural Literacy: Whose Culture, Whose Literacy?

2. Write an essay: Can Dalit Literature be a Core Course?

3. Write an essay: Shakespeare's Irrelevance

4. Write an essay: Satire as a Non-Serious Form

5. Write an essay: Postcolonialism as Regionalism

6. Write an essay: The Romantic Sublime

7. Write an essay: Technology and Modernism

8. Write an essay: Adaptation as Corruption



Write a critical analysis of the poem given below.


He said: Here is my soul.
I did not want his soul
but I am a Southerner
and very polite.
I took it lightly
as it was offered. But did not
chain it down.
I loved it and tended
it. I would hand it back
as good as new.

He said: How dare you want
my soul! Give it back!
How greedy you are!
It is a trait
I had not noticed
before!

I said: But your soul
never left you. It was only
a heavy thought from
your childhood
passed to me for safekeeping.

But he never believed me.
Until the end
he called me possessive
and held his soul
so tightly
it shrank
to fit his hand.

-Alice Walker